Help us find the top innovators driving structural reform within healthcare

HSJ, working with Bird & Bird, is seeking to celebrate healthcare’s top innovators – those individuals who have found new, innovative ways of tackling challenges within healthcare, especially within the area of structural reform.

This October we will be celebrating individuals working across the NHS and the healthcare system who have taken innovative approaches that drive structural reform – and we are now seeking your nominations.

To decide which nominees make the final list, the shortlist team and the panel will consider aspects of the innovator’s work, including:

Significance: how big was the initial challenge; how did the individual drive success where others have failed?

Impact: what impact has the individual’s work had within and beyond their organisation; how widely has this innovation been shared?

Support: to what extent does this individual help others to innovate?

A panel of expert judges will decide on the final list and the list will appear both online and in print in HSJ during October 2014.

The NHS plan is typical of plans written by policy wonks. It has lots of admirable goals but is very weak on practical steps to enable the NHS to achieve them. It pays no attention to operational management and when it does, what it suggests will only make things worse. This lack of attention to

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